Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:46:51PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > steef([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > > hi all and *especially jörg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and > > > cdrtools*. > > > > > > two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or wodim. > > > on > > > one of the responses i answered that the most recent version of > > > cdrecord/cdr-tools completely damaged two brandnew cdrom's. jörg asked me > > > for more info: and here comes some. > > > > > > 1. only one cd/dvd-burner om my machine produced this undesirable effect. > > > a > > > couple of other burners worked flawlessly with the most recent bêta of > > > jörg > > > sch. > > > so it could be that jörg did not make this beta recognize this burner: > > > see > > > /dev/hdb (from dmesg |less): > > > hda: MAXTOR STM3250820A, ATA DISK drive ### > > > hdb: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7173A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > > > Probing IDE interface ide1... > > > hdc: ST3120026A, ATA DISK drive > > > > Right! Neither cdrecord or wodim can burn to a _Hard Disk_. > > where do you get this? He provided no info on what command he used and > if you look, hdb is clearly an optical drive... are you drinking too ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ But I didn't see that! > much coffee? ;)
I wish. The line ### commented was not on my radar. I saw the line above my comment and thought "Why is he trying to burn a cd on an ATA Disk Dirve". My bad. With the mail being so light today, I was working on a couple of laptops and just missed the hdb line. Easily confused ... need ...MORE COFFEE..... WT -- Please trim quotes to minimum for context, then reply below or interleave point-by-point replies. _______________________________________________________
